As noted in PNB's season-opening reviews of Coppelia, Thomas Lund of the Royal Danish Ballet was featured as a guest artist in the role of Franz. This was announced to PNB subscribers as part of a blossoming exchange program with RDB. (Patricia Barker of PNB performed Balanchine's Symphony in C in Copenhagen last spring.) This comes about because the current RDB artistic director, Aage Thordal-Christensen and his wife, Colleen Neary, performed with PNB from 1986-92. Recently-promoted PNB soloist Jodie Thomas will perform the Bluebird pas de deux in Copenhagen in December. There are also plans to send PNB to Copenhagen and RDB to Seattle (cf., San Francisco and POB this season).

Hi, Kevin. I tried to check with Brad at PNB this morning, only to discover that he has been replaced by someone named Kim, who says that there are no plans regarding Shanghai for next season. The PNB website is also "down" this morning, so I am unable to verify further....

The PNB website has now returned....However, there is *no* prospective tour information posted. (Plenty of retrospective information, critical digest of reviews from Istanbul and Hong Kong, information on repertoire available for touring, etc.). My guess is that your information is probably quite valid, but that there is an official embargo until funding, sponsorship and other details are in concrete.

Thanks a lot, Francis. If I remember rightly, there was a mention of plans of an overseas tour by PNB to Egypt as well as Shanghai in the future. Well, Shanghai is quite near Hong Kong, for me.<p>[This message has been edited by Kevin Ng (edited October 17, 2000).]

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